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  • I believe Siam/Laos were controlled by the Khmer Empire for a while. They adopted dance and writing of the Khmer. I wouldn't be surprised if they also adopted Bokator as well.

  • do some reseach dummy, Thai has been stealing from khmer since 500 AD.

    and still are

  • whata dumbass do some research this was before muay boran came out you ignorant viet dont even know shit

  • type in the search " Live in Bangkok ( comedy ) 2/16 " thais have a cultural concert with a huge angkor wat in their backround..they trying to make angkor wat part of their culture too those damn theives

  • I just saw that to, wow, these Thais are a bunch of fags! They just want to piss us off!

  • SaiGonKidz is a fag! He wishes he was Khmer. He is so jealous of us Khmer that he feels compelled to talk shit about us.

  • SaiGon does sounds like a loser. Had he opened a history book he may learn something for once.

    BUT..if he wants to shit-talk, we can play that game. I have plenty of shit to say about the thais if he wants. But then again, with a name like SaiGon, he's probably viet anyways (which BTW, is generally agreed has the most beat up sounding language from any country).

  • thats trully racists,for thai folks sound like us, burmese and laos sound similar,and India somewhat. So you're saying all south East Asia pretty much sounds bad and look ugly,and another thing its screwed up to say that black people are shit. That's immoral kid, learn some respect, if not for us atleast for yourself, the world doesn't need kids like you draging it down with negativity.Look at yourself b4 you speak, because what you said here, shows what type of person you are inside.

  • lol SaiGonKidz is trying to learn Kun Khmer but he can't comprehend it, so he he allows his frustration over khmer superiority have the best of him, its cool kid it only works if you have khmer blood

  • why the fuck are you arguing about fishsauce and chopsticks, lol

  • I see the white supremacist mindset is well learned by east asian folks. Learn from your suppressors and think/act like they do.

    Remember as a kid when you had a coloring book where you had to circle one object that didn't belong in that group of objects? Now picture a map of SEasia from Burma southeast to Indonesia and the Filipines. Now figure out which country out of all those SEAsian nations which don't belong.

  • What the hell are you talking about? Being able to identify differences in shapes, or anything at all for that matter is by no way thinking as a supremacist.

  • thats pretty freakin awesome its cool how people can appreciate and learn about other cultures and traditions and help spread the word...totally open minded its good to know we have people like that!!! i appreciate it!

  • True,

  • pretty much it, they copy it from china, from flag, foods, using chopstick, temple, dress and clothing, religion. saigonkids is not vietnamese he is a decoy. thai copy from cambodia, religion, temples, arts, martial arts, language, alphabet,and vietnam and thailand lands use to belong to cambodia. its a fact for those who think i'm joking. reseasrch and you will find out. this kid just bitter and wasn't really well educated.

  • fish carve on stone wall in letter how to make it and carved the fish sauce barrel not bottle. is not carved on angkor wat is on another monument.

  • FUCK FISH SAUCE.

  • lol!

  • FUCK YOUR MOTHER!!

  • It's great to see such this cultural treasure being revitalized and preserved after near-extinction during the horrors that part of the world has seen in the last century. The argument about where certain elements of the neighboring cultures may have come from is unfortunate in my view. Of course there was some interchange between neighbors, but that doesn't make any of them less worthy. To have real pride and confidence in your culture is to be able to appreciate the beauty in others.

  • viet culture and food are a duplicate of china

  • saigonkids, I think it's time for you to learn some manner. Talk kindly to others, didn't your mother ever teach you this step? Fish sauce is originally from Cambodia processed from the fermented fish. Respect the owner.And we are very happy that Vietnamese enjoy our native flavor.It's good to learn that vietnamese make it varieties.

  • Saigonkidz, be nice. If you like our fish sauce, do give credit to the owner. Again, for your ignorant. Fish sauce derived from prohok process( a cambodian fermented fish).

    Open your mind and learn about other countries.

  • Your viet people might not but your government know about it, they are the one that ruined Cambodia. Learn the bad part of your people.

  • Saigonkidz,

    You are one hell hater, total ignorant. Can't believe there are people like you exist in 21century. DO you know Saigon is Cambodian territory? You were born in Cambodia. Lost child! Fish sauce is orginally Cambodian derived from prohok process(fermented fish). If you don't know, don't open your mouth.

  • much respect.

  • I like the idea of master San Kim Saen very much..

  • cool

  • the bokator stick style resembles the khmer oprah lol

  • Bhuddhism started in India, that is a fact. That fat dude sitting meditating in vietnamese peoples pendants isn't even the true bhuddha, it's Rai Cho.

    And Khmer follow Thervada Bhuddism, not the Mayahana Bhuddism of the viet.

    Chopsticks, and noodles are synonymous with the chinks. So that would make you a wannabe chink. And influenced with rice? C'mon rice? you are the biggest idiot ever. The Khmer people would not exist if not for rice.

  • ahaha 8:45 boung ga da!!!!

  • LMAO at 8:45! Boung ga da!

  • cambodian invented many it own fish sauce written on the stone wall. viet sound retarded dong dang dong dang yam yon pong.

  • Joy !

  • do mar may.

  • Most of my friend are also Viets. We have respect for each other. His parents considered me like a son. We almost like family. I only respect Viet who respect me. Even though some hate but just remember not all Khmer hate Viet or Viet hate khmer. We the same as people.

  • people like you always steal to make your way to survived out of khmer ppls. that why you are f*cken idiot thinking you are something.

    go get a life on you own don't be dog barking bagging for foods and sreaming like little kitten.

  • Stop the Viet and khmer shit mane. Now Thai hate Cambodian what up with that.? Don't Thai ever claim enough? Who got the solution to solve this matter?

  • stupid how viet rule cambodia when viet was rule by china for 3000 year. everything about vietnam was rule by china it say in the history book.

  • Sickokidz is a Cambodian hater. HE siad horrible things about Cambodia/Cambodians. He doesn't know that Vietnamese language is derived from Mon-Khmer language. Vietnamese food such as mam, fish sauce, lemon grass, many more had its root in Cambodia/ Mekong Delta. Go do some more research and you might be able to come to a closure. Your ancestor might be Cambodian. Don't forget that along time ago your ancestors were apes.

  • Thailand ADOPTED THE KHMER CULTURE , ELEMENTS AND RELIGIOUS SINCE THE 13th CENTURY. (FACT) Thai culture is a sister culture of Cambodia.. History was lost during the PolPot reigned. Many dialects and document were destroyed. Some are being uncovered. No one is allow to speak of the Art. Yuriskojerko is a true hater.

  • Khmers never been occupied by the Mongol.

    I think Khmers even helped the Viet refugees from the Mongol killing too.

  • psychokidz is a Cambodian hater. If you don't appreciate diversity/multicaulture go back to Vietnam and join the Vietcong. History is history you cannot dispute that. cultures and history add beauty to the world.

  • i wouldn't call it much of an empire

  • viet people rule by china for 3000 years.the french also rule viet.

  • Vietnamese people these days are dark as Khmer people too well actually the people in the South since that was Champa's territory. They are dark complexion themselves like us Khmer people, but true Dai Viets are short little white looking slanted eyed people. You can call our people dark and ugly, but your so called people are intermixing with the Cham people too lmfao! Oh by the way Cambodia isn't all dark nowadays it's nothing but a boiling pot of ethnic people now.

  • You Vietnamese in here need to do a little more researching in here. Champa (South Vietnam) at one point and that area was inhabitated way before you Dai Viets ever came there. You barely have monuments as old as us Khmer people or the Cham people that occupied Champa at the time lol. Now tell me something what's your oldest temples or monuments in Vietnam not including any of Champa's territories because you guys are no where related to Chams since they are in the Malay stock.

  • vietnam doesnt give cambodia independence retard. indian writing? cambodian adopted it remodel it upgrade it. then thai adopted cambodian writing and remodel it.

  • Dai viet used Chinese Kanji script directly as it is today. They wasn't even inspired by it and molded it for their preference. All SEAsian nations at one time or another design their written script based on the Pallava script from souther India. The only nation that didn't was 'Dai Viet' since you came down to SEAsian soo late you couldn't steal it like the Siams.

  • there was no vietnam 3000 years ago. 'dai viet' was under the han rule, sung empire. dai viet was han territory.

  • It's the better for khmer people to know Khmer's Bokator

  • I find the arguments made about the origins of bokator is ridiculous....! Is there nothing the other bordering countries willing to let be Khmer...go and research the information if you are not willing to except the statements in this documentary...but do not make a bias half-ass excuse blatant statement about origins of bokator if you did not research....this is the faulty area of you tubers...leaving ridiculous and hateful comments which is not intellectually backed with reasons...PEACE

  • People with no culture have no history.

    People with no history have no culture.

    Latin script. check.

    Han custom. check.

    Han attire. check.

    Han calligraphy skills. check.

    The most mongoloid looking people in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Viets are pasty white as fuck living near the equator. Compare North Vietnam to South Vietnam. That's illogical unless they migrated down recently.

  • wow... This real good! Fianaly khmer illustrated the real khmer martial art that i have heard from khmer oldies, the Prodal Serey is khmer too, but bokator is the true hiden khmer way back in the century.

  • Saigonkidz is a "hater". its like his job or something.

  • and what exactly your religion saigonkidz? r u even qualify as asian to begin with. yep, you only talk shit about cambodian and chinese because you envy us. we both got rich culture and history. we have a sense of belonging and you don't. you're land is Cambodian land, you're rejected by chinese. i can you why you talking hates.

  • Saigonkidz wants to be everybody. look at your flag, alphabet, clothes, etc.  we been through this before, you forget fast huh. we don't care about your trash talk. nobody care about loner like yourself. get a job.

  • see what i mean i told you to stop dissing cambodian people or our video, now you have more enemy. and its not all cambodian that firing back, i also knowtiest other ethnic (chinese) are getting involved. you just make more people hate vietnamese people even more. thanks to you. you should end this shit, than i''l try to ask people to end this shit too. maybe for a change get off your computer and go do sports or something.

  • nobody not saying viet are muslim retard. just say that buddha born in india an indian prince.

  • you're not philipino, just other viet hiding behind someone else's name. pathetic.

  • buddha is born in india an indian prince go read the history book. india was hindu then later india became buddhist then back to hindu. buddhist did came from vietnam retard. Siddhārtha Gautama AKA Buddha

  • buddha is an indian man. buddhist first originated in india. hindu and buddhist came from india.

  • canmbodian are not hindu, cambodian are cambodia. king jiavarmin the 7th converted to buddhisim some 800 years ago. viet use to be muslim thats were the cham came from.

  • thai kickboxing came from cambodian

  • Why does this stuff sound and look Thai, does Cambodia and Thailand have any history together?

  • Why does this stuff sound and look Thai, does Cambodia and Thailand have any history together?

  • This is sick, but the stick ...

    Such a copy of Filipino Arnis!

  • saigonkidz is a LONER.lol. ill minded. mentally challenge.

  • vietnam religion came from india buddhist. viet worship an indian person

  • viet belong in the ocean with the fish and their house boat. go watch your own video, loner?

  • saigonkids. loner? this person post stupid comments in anybody video that he dislike. get a life queer loner. thai stole cambodian culture. just because they have the money to fabricated their fake history doesn't mean its real. only people with shallow mind like saigonkids would buy it.

  • you call yourself smart, indian are asian idiot. must be the agent orange passes down to you too huh. lol. chinese-reject, u know who you are. american gave viet their alphabet. viet stole chinese flag's idea. copy cat.

  • you call yourself smart, indian are asian idiot. must be the agent orange passes down to you too huh. lol. chinese-reject, u know who you are. american gave viet their alphabet. viet stole chinese flag's idea. copy cat.

  • I appreciate antonio graceffo for this document, reason is that neighboring country will try to claim this and that when its not there. Cambodia is a rich culture, forget the dollars and cents. cultures that still remain to this days while others beginning to vanish because of tourist dollars they crave for.

  • why is viet alphabet doesn't look anything like oriental, stolen from the west. their flag look like from chinese. do u ever got confused between the two. saigonkids just bitter. your people lied to you about everything. can't keep your head high when the truth catch up to you.

  • vietnam, laos thailand belong to Cambodia. your ass is our. all vietnamese food are from chinese people. got a honda, strip it down and put on a fancy kit doesn't mean its no longer a honda. understanding what i'm saying. let a viet person telling history is like stepping on dog shit.

  • yeah boy, i'mmmmmm back,you descendant of AO children still talking trash about cambodian.

  • i agree with brooklynmonk said,it is true

    the thai take every thing form cambodia and

    the vit.they have noting,they like to take

    credit when its not theres.cambodia been

    an emperior before the vit.,thai,loas had any

    land.I'm cambodian,i will die,fight,bleed

    cambodian.don't count cambodian out.Just

    because the vit.cong rule cambodia land.soon

    or later vit.land is to be cambodia again.

    cambodian pride.

  • Hey Kid I gota serious question for you, do you hate Cambodians? Every comment you make seems that way.

  • From what a Cambodian friend told me is that there is alot of pho place because there are alot of illegal Viets in the country, go figure!

  • I would actually think the influences of the countries in the same region would of been more recent than 3000 years. If the Khmers were influence be the Viets that long ago than why are Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia more simular to each other than Vietnam? What is Viet food? Pho is Chinese in origin. All Cambodian foods are from Viet food? So before the Viets the Khmers were eating rocks? Rice, chicken, beef, pork are eaten all over the world, doesn't mean they're Vietnamese foods.

  • omg! go learn some history or do some research!!!

  • I think the only thing the Cambodian borrow from Vietnam is Vietnamese underage children for sex-trade. Actually, I think Vietnamese give their children to them because Viet has no respect for human-life, not even their own blood.

  • Im khmer, but I do have viet friends. All of them are mostly like to cheat, steal, and in a gange. As long they dont steal from me im good. But this is USA so everyone should just get along, rather than trying to eat each other on youtube.

  • f..king retarded...didn't even know the facts but talk good about ur owned country!

  • Thai-land is the land of free transvestites to roam around the country. We Malays will keep killing Thais for their insult of Islam. "Anna and the King" is a true story based on Thai history and people should check it out.

  • Vietnam biggest exports are underage children for sex-trade. Thai-land is the land of Transvestites; Transves-Thai-Land.

  • it true u cambodian got a lot of influence by the viet, a lot of ur khmer words r borrow from viet, laos and thai, so be real

  • No! You are totally wrong! Cambodian never borrow words from Viet or Laos,but Thai took a lot of Khmer words to use until now. Not only words even the style of letter writing, thai was stealing from Khmer too.

  • Hey Khmermohanokor cambodia have along histroy .the thai and the viet dont because the prof is on wall off angorwat.the thai is like a redhard stepschild we give some they steal alot from us,the viet steal and kill for thir land.cambodia copy knowone they copy us.

  • Yes you are right, o5cambo!

  • yea its true, while I'm not sure about viet and laos, I have heard that its Thai that have taken alot of influence from Khmer

  • i am linguist: i speak thai, Khmer and chinese, i am writing a book on Thai linguistics. Thai borrowed from Khmer. all of wors for religion, science, government, and royalty came from Khmer. they were borrowed by thai.thai and lao are 70% the same. there is no influence from Vietnam. Vietnamese is a chinese dialect and vietnam NEVER had their own alphabet. they used chinese alphabet and later used western alphabet from the french. i love all the countries in southeast asia, but be real.

  • Wow your 20 years old an your talking madd shit online? Oh, my bad, i forgot. Your viet. Thats what your supposed to do.

  • Wow your 20 years old an your talking madd shit online? Oh, my bad, i forgot. Your viet. Thats what your supposed to do.

  • Don't be proud about Khmers are under you. Just open your eyes and wait to see the future of your country what will happen. You can't be ancestor's tricks can't be strong forever. One day you will be regret with your greediness!

  • You must know! Your Viet(Yuon) and Thai(Siem) are just born after Khmer empire. So you and thai don't have anything for Khmer to steal, except you and thai steal from Khmer. If you have your brain to think, you must too shy to say Khmer steal culture from you or from thai.

  • Hey keep up the fact about camboodia histroy i loved it because the non beleaver cant handle it.I cant wait to go tocambodia next week to lean more about Bokator i'm going to be there for one year.i hope i can lean it all!

  • That sounds great, good luck!

  • Hi SaiGonKidz, Crocodile's baby. I love your way. If you don't know you can ask as you did, don't just say without any proof it will be shown your natural cheapness. I know you don't know anything but just wrote following your rude mind as you have been related from your ancestors.

  • SaiGonKidz you dumbass learn your history

  • real deal comming soon the real boran khmer

  • is it bokator or labokator?

  • bokator is the common name and LaBokator is the formal name.

  • ohhh! i c.thank.or kun

  • it is bokator but the french put "la" in front of it to mean "the"

  • thank 4 telling!! or kun na bong /oun

  • you're such an ass lol. yeah keep talking your shit because since you guys tried to invade our kingdom. We used sticks n staffs combining with the Bokator techniques to drive you guys away from our country. Admit it... you guys lost a great war against us khmers. I'm not hating against Vietnamese, i love vietnamese people but some of you guys are just stubborn and think your race is best.

  • SEAsian martial arts should rightfully be credited to the indegenous peoples such as the Pyu, Khom, Mon-Khmer, Ramanya, Khmer, etc... It wasn't until the later tribes migrated that they were influenced by these martial arts and carried it as their own to this day.

  • Thai and Vietnam claim that the land belongs to them. Khmer believe we belong to the land. Khmer are the caretakers. They are the takers.

    We gave you refuge from certain death, out of the goodness in our hearts.

  • The Thai did not copy the Khmer, rather they were heavely influenced in the way of the Khmer. We should all be proud of the fact that we have such a high culture during Angkor that our neighbors absorbed it as their own. Remember that our culture is merely imitated but never will it be duplicated. The only time it is really stolen is when an ignorant Thai claims that their culture is indegenous, therefore we should correct them rather than curse them.

  • Please everyone, let the ignorant boy talk. What does he know about Khmer culture and history anyway? He only assumes so there is no credibility and because of his extreme animosity towards the Khmer he should not be taken seriously.

  • actually thai copy khmer culture the martial art khmer using is carved on the stone wall of angkor. thai came from south china. khmer are the ancient people in SEA been there long before viet lao and thai came to SEA from south china

  • shut up gook!

  • soigonkid1 veitnam do not has land your people only live in river no cuture, and also you do not know where you come from, go back to the river

  • You have no idea what you're talking about.

    My advise to you is to read Sak Yant of Khmer sangkrit which has been associated to Khmer boxing. Muay Thai boxers are using Khmer Sak Yant and Khmer Areak music the same as Khmer boxers to protect themselves and that why Khmer people know that Muay Thai is stolen from Khmer.

  • I understand it looks like muay thai, that is a good comparison. It obvious that muay thai is very popular and of course people will compare it to what is popular and simular. Just like the Xrox copy machine popularize photo copies. Now most people always say "xerox copy this" even though they may be using a Canon photocopy machine.

  • You vietnamese(Yuon) is the same to the cultural thief(thai). You are robber and stealer. You steal everything from the neighbor countries. Your origin just a tribe. Now you said other country borrow from you. Khmer no mix with african. Oh my gosh, I talk to you I must be as low as you are. However Khmer are pure, Khmer as not as cultural thie and land robber as Yuon (vietnamese) and siem(thai). Ok I don't give you a FUCK because your mother always FUCK!

  • LOl u cambodian copy our martial art and say it ur ? this is fuck up shit right here, u khmer alway copy thai shit, fucking loser

  • My first comment was disappeared. This guy come to show his stupidity in here again. I told you, thai(siem) have nothing for Khmer to steal but siem have always stolen from Khmer since the past until now. You try to tell the world Khmer steal from you. Only the stupid one can believe you, moreover you are declaring to the world you are the thief.

  • I don't mind you because your forefather taught you this way, they never write the true history because they want you to be stupid like you are everyday.

  • cambodian are descendents from india..thats why their all so beautiful in america they loook so exotic way better then viet chinese and alll asians...the loook spanish...

  • Khmer Should be proud that our forefather have created all these Kbach Kun Khmer for our generations. We have our own things from our forefather, we didn't still from any one like some nations! Jeyyooooo, Khmer!!!!! Jeyyyyooooo Kbach Kun Khmer! Kbach Kun Khmer is live in our Khmer Blood forever!

  • I DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU JUST SAID. SaiGonKidz, you are really insulting! We are all brothers. We need to help each other, Love each other, and Be friends. I know the truth, but it's pointless!!!

  • You're probably the only guy on this forum that makes any sense with your comments. These other kids need to grow up.

  • -.- u stupid veit go learn some history first of all muay thai was "inspired" from bokator (inspired haha such a nice work for stole)

  • SaiGonKidz is probably a dumbass 16 yrs old who just hates of what his people dont have!

  • u need to do some history research u stupid asshole.. u viets are just robbers from china. dont try to be superior to other country coz u dont know shit. thai came after the khmer empire, we dont need to copy shit from anyone. not like u viet trying to copy everything from the chinese and try to make it your own.

  • hMMMMM CHGANG BOK MI SREY NIIII HMMMM!!!

  • HAHAHA ANG BOK BI CROY HUY HANG BOK THO MOK lol

  • thach is right, we are all asian and we are all brothers and sisters, but we need to stop cutting each others throats over little things

  • who said nething about cutting throats? Didnt u hear him say Rip

  • lol thats right rip..more painful that way XD

  • The endless bouts between thai and khmer people are funny. lol grow up. thai aren't bad people. and so aren't khmer and viet. we're all humans! you could hate on me but tell me what does that change?

  • whoever says khmer martial arts is based on viet vo dao is wrong because vietnam did not even existwhen khmer martial arts was invented.

  • while we can objectively agree that Bokator and Vo Viet Dao is two seperate art, historical statements like when a this/that country exist should be not be used unless you are history professor. True, modern day Vietnam wasn't till recently, but at time of Angkor they do have a Dai Viet country, which were took its independence from China not too long at that time. VVDao is a combination of art developed in the 30s.

  • oh, i understand what ur saying. i didnt mean to say vietnam didnt exist. i meant to say that viet vo dao didnt exist yet and i agree that the art are completely different.

  • The only person that said that was that "mombeena" what ever his sn was. Hes just some viet kid going around khmer videos talkin shit and pretendin to be khmer sayin khmer martial arts came from vovinam.

  • Same style as that guy who plays in the thai warrior

  • That guy is Khmer from Surin. Thai copied it from Khmer and named it in Thai.

  • See that Thai dude is stealing Khmer video

    already.

  • narrator said argument btwn khmer & thai on who invented kickboxing may never be settled. umm..it's so obvious it came from khmer. thai were called Siam=thief so they changed it.thai always like to label every fucking thai..thai this thai that,even labeled their rubber bands thai, they labeled their land thai cuz they're

  • cuz they're so afraid no one recognize it belongs to them since they stole it from khmer. thai never existed back then they came from khmer..look at their language it's a derivative of khmer language...case closed. and why must some asshole mention vietnamese and rain on our parade when it's about khmer martial art.. wat the hell r u advertising the viet for? why won't u do it somewhere else. both thai & viet r horrible they stole and murdered khmer...

  • took u a while to figure that out lol. Besides khmers have bigger.....

  • u dun make sense...i have no clue whatcha writin 'bout

  • มวยไทย

  • what the hell does that say?? มวยไทย

  • nigga write in english, we cant understand that imitation of khmer script.

  • Hahaha..you come to the wrong place dude!

  • let's check out the Vovinam Viet Vo Dao from VIetnamese martial art or check out the Vovinam leg tech

  • which leg technique? To my observation, Viet Vo Dao is a very impressionable art. It's always changing.

  • Antonio...you are an Angkorian warrior reincarnated. Thanks...from the bottom of my heart.

  • huh? Bokator derived from Viet Vo Dao? Have you even seen Viet Vo Dao? These two arts are completely different in stance and techniques. All fundamentals are different. Stop making up links that don't exist. Bokator neither derived from Vo Viet Dao nor Vo Viet Dao derived from Bokator. Totally different art.

  • Bokator in an MMA match could really test it's effectiveness. Would love to see it used in MMA.

  • on reason the grand master promoted me to lack krama was so that i could defend the art. i would be willing to fight in an MMA match and represent khmer bokator, showing the Khemr style to the world.

  • I would love to see someone represent bokator in an mma match. But we must really prepare ourselves and prove that it can work. There should be an MMA association in SEA that khmer can start and host. They can bring to light all the Martial arts of SEA.

  • there is an MMA association for southeast asia and there are now smaller weight divisions so khmers, thais, and filipinos can compete. thailand has joined and is already fighting. philippines is winning. an cambodia of corue is completely unaware of this organization and will never join because cambodia never joins any international sports bodies. thailand and philippines are both members of all the world professional boxing associations and cambodia isnt.

  • to everyone who says it looks like Thai art, any martial arts look the same since we only have hands and legs and elbows but only a practioner of the art knows the difference, also thai only science of 8, Khmer is the science of 12 limbs

  • Most of this information got ripped off from my Kru, Kru Ouer Ny is a master of Khmer Boran and his philosophies were mentioned here, if you check san kim seans previous interviews he never mentions anything of the 4 elements...tah prohm...

  • Every martial art in the world talks about the four elements. your master didnt invent that concept and neither did mine. so many of these comments would be unnecesary if people would just sit down and read a book of khmer history and a book of martial arts history. also, if your master and mine never met, how could my master rip yuor guy off? another thing is we ar etrying to preserve the art, NOT FIGHT with other khmers. if you want to save the art, film your master and help him write a book.

  • hey, sorry i didnt mean to argue over this, and yea we dont need to fight over it, im just saying...theres stuff here i cant mention well ill just leave it at that.

  • Hey Antonio i've read the stuff you have on your website and yes it is like a really bad kung fu movie. What can you say when your working with non-professional actors and a low budget film...

  • really bad kung fu movie! the worst kung fu movie ever made is Buffalo Protecting Child, starring Eh Phou Thoung and Me. i almost walked out when i watched it in the cinema. but we are learning, and we will do better next time. The Histoy Channel shows were well-done.

  • LOL i understand how you feel. yea im sure you guys will do better next time. if only hollywood could take the storyline and make a movie out of it, lets say movies like Gladiator or Braveheart that would be great. not just the martial art of Bokator but the Khmer Empire in general. that's really far fetched but an idea worth bringing up to the directors in hollywood eh?

  • Man that will be an awesome idea. An epic movie like gladiators but with the khmer empire. They have everything for a box office movie. You have rich history for tons of ideas.

  • What sources are you getting that our bokator came from a vietnamese art form. Just curious?

  • Viet vo dao is not all that old. i did a marts odyssey show about it which will be airing in 2008. definitely Khmer art IS NOT based on Vietnamese art. the vietnamese Viet Vo Dao and Vo Vinam looks like korean martial arts with some moves from kick boxing which probably came from Cambodia and lao. Vo Vienam is only about 80 years old. Viet Vo dao is abuot 600 years old.

  • Thankyou for your clarification. Also kudos for all that your doing to promote this ancient art form. Soon the world will know about Cambodia's rich culture. Awkun!